The Song of le plus cher Salomon London 1897 illustré par Granville Fell

THE SONG OF SOLOMON with twelve full page plates and various other decorations by H. GRANVILLE FELL (1872-1941).

Publisher: Chapman and Hall Limited, London, 1897.

Description: Half leather binding over marbled covers. Blind stamped edges. Spine is gilt embossed design and lettering. All gilt edges. Marbled endpapers. Hand bound by Henry Bailey of Salisbury. Illustrated frontis and title page with tissue guard and 11 others throughout text all with tissue guards..

Condition: Very good+. Light shelf wear. Staining where leather meets marbled paper. (see photos) Bookplate on inside cover. Light pencil notes on second free endpaper. Binding information in ink on back free endpaper. Pages are clean and tight to the spine.

Pages: 15

Size: 8.25" x 9.75"

Very nice and scarce book.

H. Granville FellUK illustrator, active from about 1895 in a style which derives more from the curvilinear Celtic of WilliamMorristhan from the stiffly hieratic WalterCrane, though he did imitate the latter whenever noble subjects were depicted. Books illustrated by Fell include versions ofAli Baba and the Forty Thieves(1895) andCinderella and Jack and the Beanstalk(coll 1895),The Book of Dragons(1900) by ENesbit,Wonder Stories from Herodotus(coll 1900) and the anonymousSir Thomas Thumb, or The Wonderful Adventures of a Fairy Knight(1907).

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This book is from the estate ofJohn Robert Gregg Jr.Born April 25, 1935 in Manhattan, N.Y. to John Robert Gregg, inventor of Gregg shorthand, and Janet Kinley Gregg, daughter of economist David Kinley, he worked briefly as an editor for the Sierra Club in San Francisco before moving to York, Maine in 1967, where he lived the rest of his life winter, spring and fall. He died in York in 2019. Summers he spent at his beloved cottage on the French River, Ontario.

His extensive collected library was supplemented byinherited collections from a number of allied families who lived in both Chicago and Manhattan.Subjects include Canadian and Arctic exploration, Inuits, American Revolutionary War; Novels and poetry by William Shakespeare, Keats and Shelley, Marlowe, Bierce, Douglas, as well as plays etc.

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